How we check what we publish

Planet HoHo covers 55 countries: who brings the presents and on which day, local guides in the local language, and free tools for families. This page lists where the facts come from, so you can judge how far to rely on them.

Dates, venues and addresses

For a market, a light display or a post office programme we open the organiser’s own page first, then the city or tourism board, then local press and listings published this season. We search in the local language, since the useful page for a market in Poprad or Porto is rarely the English one. Each source is linked on the page and the page shows the date it was read.

Dates, prices and opening hours change at short notice. Check with the organiser before you travel; that is what the link is for.

If 2026 is not announced yet

Many small markets and public services publish their plans in November. We then show last season’s date with its year and say that 2026 is not announced. When a 2026 date comes from a source other than the organiser, such as a city page, a tourism board or a newspaper, it is marked as expected with that source beside it. We do not assume that an event repeats on the same days, and a page with a gap is read again when announcements begin.

Prices and consumer rights

A price is printed only when we read it on the shop’s own product page; the shop, the link and the day are shown with it. We do not track prices after that, so we promise no discount and no stock. If a shop page could not be read that day, the shop is left out. When a page explains a consumer right, for example the 14-day withdrawal period for online purchases, it names the consumer authority page we read. Where we found none, the page sends you to the shop’s terms instead of stating a rule.

What people say online

Forum and Reddit threads show which questions a page has to answer, such as what to put in the doors of an advent calendar. We paraphrase them, never quote a user, and never treat them as a fact about a place. Facts come from the sources above.

Tools that run in your browser

Letters, cards, certificates, printables, wish lists and Secret Santa work on your device. What you type is not sent to us. A Secret Santa draw lives in the link you share, after the # sign, which browsers do not send to a server. One small exception is explained on the privacy page: the Santa video tool loads a ready-made sound clip for about fifty common names. There is no analytics at all, no cookies and no third-party scripts.

Photos and illustrations

Photos by other people are used under free licences, chiefly from Wikimedia Commons and Flickr, with author and licence under each photo and a link to the original. Illustrations are generated with AI image tools and carry no credit; they are labelled as illustrations. They show no real people or events.

What we do not do

• No advertising, no affiliate links, nothing sponsored.
• No market or event pays to be listed or ranked higher.
• Links to shops are plain searches that earn us nothing.
• We do not copy other sites. Guides to places and customs are written in our own words after reading local sources. The tools share one design, but their texts are written in each language.
• We leave out a fact we could not confirm.

Reporting a mistake

If a date, price, address or custom is wrong, write to admin@planethoho.com with the page address and, if you have it, a link to the right source. We check it and correct the page. If you own a place or home shown here and want an address or a photo removed, we do it within 48 hours.

Independence

Planet HoHo is an independent site. It is not run by, or connected to, any market, shop, brand, postal service or public body that appears on its pages. Operator details and the editorial policy are on the legal page; the reason the site exists is on the about page.